It’s chopped-up goatskin ($1 extra, if you’re getting it with the combo).
So what to eat? Choice of entrée includes chicken BBQ, chicken curry, pork BBQ, salchichas (sausages), siopao (steamed stuffed buns), and this interesting one: goat kilawin. Or with pancit rice noodles and veggies as the base, $9 and $13.50.
Beth says you can buy individual tubs of food at about five bucks each, or get a combo of garlic rice with one entrée for $8.75, or with two entrées for $12.50. But the umami smells are waking up my senses.
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“What would you like? A combo? Pancit noodles? Garlic rice? Some of each?” I can’t believe I’m ordering a full meal at the crack of dawn like this. She stands, large spoon at the ready, behind the rack of chafing dishes. People keep shuffling through the front door. “Twenty-five pieces of lumpia for $10.”īeth needs to move things along. Ria knows what she wants: to take some Lumpia Shanghai (which is the standard lumpia) back to her man Will. I’m seeing chafing dishes filled with pinky-mauve jackfruit, gold and black BBQ pork, scarlet salchicha sausages, adobo, chicken, and whole grilled fishes, piled with their eyes wide open, staring at you from the Other Side. Ria promised me a “healthful surprise” before she marched me across the parking lot, and in here. “We eat anything,” says Beth, who runs the place, “but most days we might have this garlic rice, with longaniza, tocino, grilled and boned bangus, and for sure the eggplant torta.” Beth: show this man what Filipino people eat for breakfast!” And for sure, a steady bunch of customers files up the row and points to different dishes.
What I can’t figure is how come these guys are up and running at this crazy hour. “Also opens early.” We slurp, and we stare at a long rack of steaming foods in chafing dishes. Ria disappears and comes back with two coffees. And here, between Tasty Pizza and Josie’s Hair Design, this little food place called Filipino Grill is doing gangbuster business. This is an inland section of Imperial Beach, a shopping center off Saturn Boulevard. “Really, pappy, we’re in Egger Highlands.” She says it like I ought to know. She had whipped me inside this small storefront before I could catch the name. Ria, my beloved stepkid who’s no longer a kid, wanted to keep this a mystery.
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